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Vigilant Guard: Voices of experience add to the training
May 14, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - The National Guard exercise Vigilant Guard this month is offering service... MORE

Mothers wore combat boots and gas masks on their special day
May 14, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - The National Restaurant Association reports that Mother's Day, a 93-year-old... MORE

Illinois Army National Guard Sgt. Celia Rodriguez was a mom wearing a protective mask on Mother's Day while taking part in the National Guard's training exercise Vigilant Guard. She was conducting decontamination operations at the Indiana National Guard's Muscatatuck Urban Training Center.

Members of Air Guard medical groups unite for Vigilant Guard
May 14, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - The building had collapsed, and victims were trapped and screaming for medical... MORE

Air National Guard medical technicians from the Illinois National Guard's Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) evaluate a role-playing victim of a collapsed building for injuries in mid-May as part of the National Guard training exercise Vigilant Guard in Indiana.

Hands that held weapons now hold hope
May 12, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - As the Vigilant Guard exercise continues to test National Guard members from... MORE

National Guard cleaning up Greensburg
May 10, 2007 — GREENSBURG, Kan. - It's hard to describe the immensity of the destruction in Greensburg, Kan. State... MORE

Members of the 134th Air Control Squadron, Kansas Air National Guard, operate heavy equipment near the courthouse of Greensburg, Kan., May 8, 2007. The Airmen worked to free a forklift that had been stuck in the mud. The building was one of the few left standing after a massive tornado decimated the town May 4. Approximately 400 National Guardmembers have been called up to assist with the cleanup, provide security and perform other disaster response functions.

Guard Responding to Domestic Crises Nationwide
May 10, 2007 — WASHINGTON - While President Bush toured the site of a deadly tornado in Kansas today, the National... MORE

Greensburg Tornado Changes Life of Kansas Guard Soldier
May 10, 2007 — Greensburg, Kan. - It had taken almost two days of work by a dozen people to clear the debris of... MORE

Laura and Rodney Prosser with their daughter Heidi, 11, and son Keith, 13, sit in front of what remains of their Greensburg, Kan., home after it was destroyed by a category F5E tornado, May 4, 2007.

From citizen to disaster relief workers, National Guard members transform quickly to help town of Greensburg
May 10, 2007 — GREENSBURG, Kan. - The phone rang at 1:45 a.m. and minutes later National Guardmembers from all over... MORE

Indiana's vigilant medical crew provides care for the caregivers
May 10, 2007 — BUTLERVILLE, Ind. - A day before one of the National Guard's largest homeland defense training... MORE

An aeromedical air crew member from the 121st Medical Company, District of Columbia Army National Guard, prepares a UH-1H helicopter at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Butlerville, Ind., to provide medical support for the National Guard training exercise Vigilant Guard.

Missouri National Guard Citizen-Soldiers help flooded areas
May 9, 2007 — More than 100 Citizen-Soldiers of the Missouri National Guard are assisting, or ready to assist,... MORE

Washington Guard Continues Strengthening Relationship at Thailand’s Port of Laem Chabang

25 Years Strong: Hawai‘i Guard and Philippines Celebrate Enduring Partnership

National Guard, Nordic Partnerships Bolster European Defenses

New Jersey Guard, Albanian Military Boost Medics’ Combat Readiness

Lithuanian Defense Delegation Visits Pennsylvania Guard Drone Facility